The most dangerous trap for the unwary is the regulation on self-dealing - a legal principle that prevents I.R.A. owners from making investments that benefit themselves or certain family members, even indirectly.

"Should he return to me," she thought in those paroxysms of delusion, "I would to _him_ unbosom all my guilt; and as a remote, a kind of unwary accomplice in my crime, his sense, his arguments, ever ready in making light of my sins, might afford a respite to my troubled conscience."

Still, no one knows what free will come to mean in forty years, when speakers of languages other than English may free this very old word from its current hell of being used predominantly to describe goods and services to be had or so hope the naïve and unwary at no cost.

And even that most notorious technique of postmodernism, self-reflexivity, is really as much a way of poking fun at the pretentions of fiction writers, their claims to adequately represent the world of experience in a direct and unmediated way, as it is to frustrate the expectations of unwary readers.